I really like the comment that was made about the accreditation of the college. Although I was a bit skeptical of Phaedrus’ teaching I thought the comment he made to be extremely insightful. Essentially, all the labels we put on things are make believe. Being a blue ribbon school, having a college degree, having an MD at the end of your name does not really mean anything. If two people go to two different medical schools and one is accredited while the other is not, the person who went to the accredited school will be more highly regarded. For what though? Even if they both received the same exact education the person who had accreditation will be known as the better one. It really does not make any sense seeing as that accreditation is only a flimsy piece of paper. An education is an education and a little piece of paper should not change that for anything. It seems that we value the title in our society way more than we value the education itself.
The quote that Phaedrus had said about having to “serve through reason… the goal of truth” seemed interesting to me as well. Reason is something so subjective that almost no two people will agree upon it. However, what was more interesting about the quote was the fact that reason was helping serve the goal of truth. Reason is already difficult enough to find, but truth is even more rare. The truth is so rare because so many are so afraid of what it can do and end up not telling the truth at all. How then are you supposed to reason through something that can pretty much be said to be non existent?
- Talia Akerman
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